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Emoticons are a well-hidden feature of the iPhone that enhances SMS and iMessages and can be used in almost any application that involves typing. Helping you to convey emotions more effectively, emoticons are one of the features of the iPhone that are not known to all users. The iPhone has a whole keyboard full of emoticons in fact, but you need to activate it before you can use it. Find out below how to add emoticons on iPhone. Continue Reading…

You’ve probably heard already of various methods of jailbreaking an iPhone, and you might have been tempted at least once to use a jailbreaking tool to unleash the full power of your device and break free from some of the restraints imposed by iOS. What stopped you was the fear that you could lose your iPhone warranty and mess up the device. Continue Reading…

What is TTY on iPhone?

Out of users who are new to their iPhone have begun to see a TTY simple pop-up in the status bar in specific areas, and aren’t quite sure of what exactly is going on with their new phone. Don’t worry, there is nothing strange or negative going on inside your phone – it simply a system designed specifically to help people who are hearing impaired or legally deaf to more easily use their cell phone.Continue Reading…

Too busy? Having a difficult time planning your meals? The PepperPlate App can come to your rescue. If you’re one of those who often end up grabbing a quick sandwich instead of a complete meal, here’s something that can provide you a little hope. Continue Reading…

With the new 1Password app, you can easily keep track of the login names and passwords of all your online accounts. This is a universal app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Mini and available separately for Windows and Mac. This popular app works towards reducing the stress levels associated with trying to memorize hordes of login details. Continue Reading…

One of the biggest issues the iPhone – and any powerful smart phone, really – has to contend with on a regular basis is providing enough battery life and juice to do everything that we want to do. Most of us find that we can get through a day of light iPhone use on just a single charge, but throw in some productivity apps, and a lot of phone calls or text messages, watching all of our favorite streaming content, or even just listening to music can really put a drain on our batteries. This requires jacking into a power source at any and every opportunity, always keeping a charging cord handy just in case we need an emergency re-up.Continue Reading…

The iPhone is beautiful but vulnerable. It might have a scratch-resistant screen and a tough case, but it can easily get damaged, and in time, if not properly cared for, it can lose its nice and shiny look. Here are the do’s and dont’s of iPhone 5 maintenance. Continue Reading…

Apple products have been the world’s favorite smart mobile devices for ages now. There is always a nail biting suspense whenever Apple is going to launch a new product. Attribute it to their extraordinary design values or the legendary Steve Jobs’ showmanship, Apple products really sell like hot cakes as soon as they are launched. Continue Reading…

You can save the phone number of a text message sender and add him as a contact on iPhone without much fuss, but the process you will have to follow is not particularly intuitive. Apple should really make it easier for users to add contacts to the address book in future iOS releases. Until then though, keep reading to find out how to add a contact from a text message in iPhone. Continue Reading…

As we all know, the Apple audio quality is beyond any comparison. Their in-ear speakers provide great high fidelity music output for music lovers. However, earphones are not always the best option as they can be enjoyed by just one person (or maybe two) at a time. Continue Reading…

If your cash survives just from one paycheck to another and you hate keeping a log of every little thing, here is Spendee, a cool little app that will keep track of things without making you go into boring details. Continue Reading…

Original Apple accessories have a reputation for being rather costly. Okay, they might not always be expensive, but they’re certainly not cheap, and considering their excellent quality, that’s understandable. There are users, however, who are willing to make compromises when it comes to iPad or iPhone or iPod accessories and purchase second-rate products made in China but not designed in California. Naturally, most of those users live in countries where the average income is much lower than it is in the United States. Continue Reading…

There are so many interesting iPhone lifestyle apps out there that sometimes you don’t even know what to install first. Whether you’re concerned with fitness, food, or shopping, you have a dozen options from which to choose. So how do you choose? Well, you begin with a couple of apps which are really indispensable. Continue Reading…

With the iCloud PhotoStream available on the iPhone you can share photos between your Apple devices, including iPad and Mac. If you enable Shared Photo Streams, you can even share the photos over the Internet with friends, family, colleagues. Once you activate iCloud, all the new photos you take with the iPhone camera are automatically added to the PhotoStream, but if you happen to have some older photo albums created before you’ve turned on the PhotoStrem, you would probably want to add them to the stream as well. Find out below how to add photos to PhotoStream on iPhone. Continue Reading…

Browsing websites on your iPhone is fairly simple, and now that more and more website owners are optimizing their sites for mobile users, it’s enjoyable as well. Some features of the iPhone Safari web browser are, however, not as straightforward as the features of the average computer web browser. Website bookmarking is one of them. Many iPhone users have no idea how to do it; some don’t even know it’s possible. It can be done, and it’s quite easy actually. The brief guide below will show you how to add bookmark on iPhone. Continue Reading…

iPhone playlists are not as rigid as they might seem at first. Although the most convenient way to create them and to add and remove songs from them is by syncing from a Mac or PC with iTunes, you can add and remove one song at a time directly from your device. Manually adding and removing songs on your iPhone is not something you want to do for large playlists with hundreds of items, but it’s a feature that comes in handy for small playlists that you create and edit on the go. Keep reading to find out how to add song to playlist on iPhone. Continue Reading…

You have done it. You have bought the latest iPhone. You are so excited to use it you can hardly wait. So excited, in fact, that your hands are trembling a bit. Trembling just enough, that is, that when you go to turn the iPhone on, you drop it on the hot concrete parking lot and shatter it into a thousand pieces right outside the cell phone store. Continue Reading…

Even though a lot of the smartphone games being released today on the iPhone and Android platforms have a bit of retro flair to them, the fact of the matter is that nothing beats playing old-school games like Mortal Kombat, Super Mario, The Legends of Zelda, the original Metal Gear Solid franchise, and a whole host of other games we all grew up with. However, it doesn’t look like too terribly many gaming companies are looking to throw a lot of money at rejigging of these fantastic titles to fit the iPhone platform but they don’t have to. You see, with the use of iPhone emulator technology and apps you can have your own retro gaming console right on your phone allowing you to play all of your favorite titles without any hiccups whatsoever.Continue Reading…

Though most of what can be expected in terms of new iOS 7 features will not be fully known until it is released sometime this fall, Apple is being fairly forthcoming about the expectations for the new OS, and seems to think iPhone and iPad users have reason to be excited. iOS 7 is slated to be the most groundbreaking update that Apple has released in a while, and should help it keep pace with some of the more innovative features of its chief competitor, Android. Continue Reading…